Welcome to Day 8 of 20 Women in Scripture You Need to Know! I am excited about this series and hope it is an encouragement to both women and men to spend time studying the women in the Bible. We can learn much from them about how to live for the glory of God.Abigail: Navigating Difficult People with GraceDo you have difficult people in your life? What a ridiculous question, right? Of course you do. We all do. And the issue we actually need to deal with most of the time is HOW will we ... [Read More]
Hannah: Passionate Prayer
Welcome to Day 7 of 20 Women in Scripture You Need to Know! I am excited about this series and hope it is an encouragement to both women and men to spend time studying the women in the Bible. We can learn much from them about how to live for the glory of God.Hannah: Passionate PrayerPrayer. It's always been hard for me. I've shared often that I pray Scripture because I am never really sure what else to pray. I felt like a prayer failure for most of my life. Only in the past few years ... [Read More]
Naomi: Bitter to Blessed
Welcome to Day 6 of 20 Women in Scripture You Need to Know! I am excited about this series and hope it is an encouragement to both women and men to spend time studying the women in the Bible. We can learn much from them about how to live for the glory of God.Naomi: Bitter to BlessedNaomi. Her story is a hard one. But she is definitely someone we can all relate to. She experienced great loss and had a bumpy road back to seeing the goodness of God.I don't know about you, but that's ... [Read More]
Deborah: Humility in Leadership
Deborah: Humility in LeadershipDeborah is one of my favorite women in the Bible. She exemplifies many traits I desire in my own life. She was a fair judge and a fearless prophetess, she managed multiple roles in her life with discipline and grace, and she was a humble leader.Leadership for women is a tough subject these days, especially in Christian circles. It can be hard to sort through all the online conversations and real-life experiences of women. And while I believe those conversations ... [Read More]
Rahab: Courage to Act
Welcome to Day 4 of 20 Women in Scripture You Need to Know! I am excited about this series and hope it is an encouragement to both women and men to spend time studying the women in the Bible. We can learn much from them about how to live for the glory of God.Ready to jump into our discussion for today? Rahab: Courage to ActBefore we go any further, let's look at where we first meet Rahab in Joshua 2. Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from the Acacia Grove, saying, “Go and ... [Read More]
Shiphrah and Puah: Faith in a Godless Culture
Today we are jumping into looking at these women in Scripture and what we can learn from them. And today is a two-for-one deal. How's that for a great start?Shiphrah and Puah. Do you know those names? They were the midwives in Egypt when Moses was born. Pharaoh commanded them to murder the baby boys born to the Hebrew women. Shiphrah and Puah: Faith in a Godless CultureThe king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives—the first whose name was Shiphrah and the second whose name was ... [Read More]
